Kala-Azar: Oral Nano Medicine
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24th Aug, 2020
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- Scientists from the Institute of Nano Science & Technology Mohali have developed an oral Nano medicine for Kala-Azar.
- Kala- Azar is one of the most neglected tropical diseases.
- The oral Nano medicine is manufactured with the help of surface-modified solid lipid nanoparticles based combinational cargo system for combating the disease.
- The solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) can help enhance the oral uptake of the therapeutic agent by retaining a solubilized state of the drug in the Gastrointestinal Tract.
- The oral therapeutics is expected to help in the control and its elimination.
- Visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar is a slow progressing Neglected Tropical Disease caused by a protozoan parasite of genus Leishmania.
- It is a zoonotic infection transmitted by the sand fly, a blood-sucking pest, found in moist (humid) mud and sand and close to livestock.
- The parasite primarily infects the reticuloendothelial system and may be found in abundance in bone marrow, spleen and liver.
- It is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after Malaria.
